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BEEVERELL, James. Les delices de la Grand' Bretagne, & de l'Irlande , Leiden: P. vander Aa, 1727. 8 volumes, 8° (152 x 89mm.). folding engraved frontispieces and 241 folding plates, plans and maps, printed titles in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red and green labels. Provenance : Paul Révoil (booklabel). Brunet I, 735. [PARIVAL, Jean Nicolas de]. Les delices de la Hollande , The Hague: widow of Henry van Dole, 1726. 2 volumes, 8° (166 x 98mm), engraved frontispieces and 36 folding plates, plans and maps (2 wormholes in the lower margins of vol. I.), contemporary sprinkled calf (slightly rubbed, spine of vol. I cracked). Provenance : John, Earl of Delawarr (late 18th-century armorial bookplate). ALVAREZ DE COLMENAR, Juan. Les delices de l'Espagne & du Portugal , Leiden: P. vander Aa, 1715. 6 volumes, 8° (160 x 95mm.), double-page engraved frontispieces and 166 plates, plans and maps, all but 11 double-page (some plates a trifle browned), contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines (spines worn, one vol. broken, 2 covers detached). Provenance : John, Earl of Delawarr (late 18th-century armorial bookplate). [CHRISTYN, Jean Baptiste (1622-90)]. Les delices des Pais-Bas , Brussels: F. Foppens, 1713. 3 volumes, 8° (156 x 97mm.), engraved frontispieces and 79 plates, plans and maps, all but 4 folding (some browning), contemporary sprinkled calf (spines worn, all 3 vols. broken). Provenance : John, Earl of Delawarr (late 18th-century armorial bookplate). [ROGISSARD, Sieur de]. Les delices de l'Italie , Leiden: P. vander Aa, 1706. 3 volumes, 8° (162 x 95mm.), engraved titles, frontispieces, double-page dedication leaf and 151 plates, plans and maps, some double-page (some browning), contemporary sprinkled calf (most covers detached, 2 vols. broken). Provenance : John, Earl of Delawarr (late 18th-century bookplate and a loosely inserted ticket in vol. I of William Clarke bookseller with manuscript instructions on the verso that Lord Delawarr may pick the books up from the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly). FIRST EDITION. Brunet IV, 1354. The lot sold as a collection, not subject to return. (22)